Romantic Affinities
''And how he studied us Germans! He is almost more at home in our literature than we are ourselves.'' (Eckermann, Coversations, 11 October 1892, as quoted in Romantic Affinities, p. 298).
Carlyle saw German Romanticism as a continuation of Goethe''s efforts to oppose the rationalistic tendencies of the Enlightenment. the fusion of philosophy and poetry in German literature and its novelty in concep...
''And how he studied us Germans! He is almost more at home in our literature than we are ourselves.'' (Eckermann, Coversations, 11 October 1892, as quoted in Romantic Affinities, p. 298).
Carlyle saw German Romanticism as a continuation of Goethe''s efforts to oppose the rationalistic tendencies of the Enlightenment. the fusion of philosophy and poetry in German literature and its novelty in concep...
